date:Nov 06, 2013
The case is the second in recent weeks of a prominent company accusing a newspaper of libel and comes amid a government crackdown on the spreading of rumours.
Nongfu Spring, a leading bottled water firm based in the southern city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, alleged that the Beijing Times published 76 libellous stories about it over a period of about four weeks.
It took issue with an allegation by the popular tabloid that it had adhered to the province's clean water standards, which ar